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Built for families and clients who need timelines, proof checklists, Oklahoma-law context, and plain-language strategy before they speak with a defense adjuster.
Client Guides
Practical timelines, evidence checklists, and real-world steps families can take in the first days of a serious injury or civil rights crisis.
Jail Death: Early Evidence Steps
Guide to jail death investigations in Oklahoma, including early steps families can take to preserve evidence and autopsy records.
What to Do After a Serious Car Wreck in Oklahoma
What to Do After a Serious Car Wreck in Oklahoma. A step-by-step guide to protecting your health, evidence, and insurance position.
After the Tragedy: A Guide for Families
Practical steps to take in the first days and weeks following a fatal accident in Oklahoma.
Can I Sue My Oil Field Employer?
Guide to Oil Field Injury Claims in Oklahoma. Understand the difference between Workers' Comp and Third Party Lawsuits.
The Settlement Timeline
How long does a personal injury lawsuit take in Oklahoma? From demand letter to trial, understand the timeline of a serious case.
"How Much Is My Case Worth?"
How much is my Oklahoma injury case worth? Understand the difference between Economic Damages (medical bills) and Non-Economic Damages (pain and suffering).
How to Choose the Best Personal Injury Lawyer for Your Case
How to choose the best personal injury lawyer in Oklahoma. An unbiased guide on what to ask, red flags to avoid, and how to verify an attorney's track record.
How do I choose the right lawyer for a catastrophic injury?
5 Critical Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Catastrophic Injury Lawyer. Learn about litigation costs, trial experience, and financial capacity.
Educational Articles
Authority-first explanations of Oklahoma injury law, trucking case value drivers, insurance tactics, and civil rights standards.
Proving Negligence & Liability
Proving Negligence in Oklahoma. Understanding Duty, Breach, Causation, and Damages in personal injury and wrongful death cases.
How Much Is My Case Worth?
How much is my Oklahoma injury case worth? Understand Economic Damages vs Non-Economic Damages and why online calculators are misleading.
Which Trucking Records Can Show a Safety Violation?
Learn how driver-hour, qualification, maintenance, cargo, and electronic records may help evaluate whether a trucking safety rule relates to an Oklahoma crash.
Why Trucking Case Value Cannot Be Reduced to a Formula
Learn how responsibility, insurance, injuries, damages, evidence, and collectability inform an individual trucking-case evaluation.
How to Choose an Injury Lawyer
What to look for when hiring an Oklahoma personal injury attorney. Questions to ask and red flags to avoid.
How to Choose a Wrongful Death Lawyer
After losing a loved one, choosing the right attorney matters. Learn what to look for in a wrongful death attorney.
The 1-Year Tort Claim Deadline in Oklahoma Explained
For a claim against an Oklahoma county or city, the 1-year Tort Claim Notice clock usually starts when the loss occurs, and the GTCA sets the other rules.
Reviewing Early Settlement Offers
Early settlement offers should be reviewed against medical prognosis, future care, release language, and available insurance coverage.
The Hicks Legal Journal
Monographs on federal immunity, corporate liability, forensic science, and the litigation strategies we use in high-stakes cases.
The Answer That Never Came
Thomas & Goza v. Liberty Mutual explains when unanswered requests for admission may be withdrawn, why the litigation record matters, and why reversal did not decide insurance coverage.
The Reports the Public Could Not Read
NonDoc Media v. University of Oklahoma explains why two reports from completed law-firm investigations remained protected by attorney-client privilege, and why the divided decision still demands careful attention to timing, waiver, segregability, and the limits of public-record access.
One Claim Is Not a Statewide Case
State Farm v. Palumbo explains why an Oklahoma homeowners’ insurance dispute could not be transformed through intervention into a statewide enforcement case, while leaving the underlying hail-loss and bad-faith allegations undecided.
The Waiver Did Not End the Question
Mayo v. Tulsa Tough shows how an Oklahoma court examines a signed race waiver, a known course hazard, and the narrow line between ordinary negligence and conduct a contract cannot excuse.
The 61 Days That Did Not Run
Williams v. McFeeters holds that the sixty-one days covered by Oklahoma’s 2020 COVID emergency orders cannot be counted against the applicable negligence limitations period.
The First Forum Can Decide the Case
Cactus Drilling v. Kirkland explains why pursuing an Oklahoma workers’ compensation claim and receiving benefits barred a later district-court action against the employer for the same work injury.
When the Insurer's Engineer Enters the Claim
A 2026 Oklahoma Supreme Court decision holds that an insurer-retained engineering company acted as the insurer's representative during a claim inspection, barring tortious-interference and civil-conspiracy claims against it on the pleaded facts. The opinion also preserves the insurer's non-delegable duties and a dissent's warning about intentional conduct.
The Policy Layer Behind the Loss
A 2026 Oklahoma Supreme Court decision explains how policy language determines the order in which primary and excess liability insurance responds, and why a prevailing insurer could not recover statutory prejudgment interest in this dispute between carriers.
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